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stylops
/ ˈstaɪlɒps /
noun
- any insect of the order Strepsiptera, including the genus Stylops, living as a parasite in other insects, esp bees and wasps: the females remain in the body of the host but the males move between hosts
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Word History and Origins
Origin of stylops1
C19: New Latin, from Greek, from stulos a pillar + ōps an eye, from the fact that the male insect has stalked compound eyes
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Example Sentences
The eyes, the facettes of which are few in number, are placed on a footstalk, whence the name of the genus Stylops.
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Packard describes the curious history of the female Stylops, which he found parasitic on one of the bees.
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When the perfect bee emerges in the following spring, it bears the full-grown Stylops, protruding from the rings of its abdomen.
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I have caught Andrenas with two Stylops in them, flying about as usual and apparently none the worse for their inmates.
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The Stylops, being hatched while still in the body of the parent, is, therefore viviparous.
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